In an interesting article at the Guardian about a new book coming out in the UK on the bias against men, there is this (via Instapundit):

The American men’s rights author Warren Farrell calls it “the glass cellar”. There might be a glass ceiling for women, Farrell once told the Observer, but “of the 25 professions ranked lowest [in the US], 24 of them are 85-100% male. That’s things like roofer, welder, garbage collector, sewer maintenance – jobs with very little security, little pay and few people want them.”

Do Benatar and Farrell have a point? A handful of statistics seems to bear out their thesis. Not only are men more likely to be conscripted into military service, to be the victims of violence, and to lose custody of their children in the event of a divorce, but tests conducted in 2009 by the programme for international student assessment, carried out by the OECD thinktank, showed that boys lag a year behind girls at reading in every industrialised country.

Are men the new “Second Sex”? It seems like in a lot of ways, the answer is “yes.”

__________________"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
--Hugh Latimer, October 16, 1555

There is definitely a growing education gap between men and women in the United States. Lots of boys are taught that intellectualism isn't a "manly" pursuit. So, we end up with functionally illiterate morons being advanced through school simply because they are good at sports.